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...that didn't stop him from becoming a featured player in the most fervently followed tabloid story of the decade. A week before Christmas, he got a call from an acquaintance, infomercial producer Tony Hoffman, who asked whether Becker would like to conduct the first extended interview with O.J. Simpson since his acquittal on murder charges last October...
Three days later, Becker was back in Los Angeles, preparing for the interview coveted by practically every journalist in America. Not that the resulting 90-minute session can be justly described as journalism. The taping was orchestrated by Simpson as a way of making money and packaged (with a Simpson-conducted evidence tour of his Brentwood estate) as a $29.95 videocassette, to be sold via 800-number mail order and released...
...with most developments in the O.J. saga, the video was the occasion for another flurry of state-of-the-art media exploitation. Though the interview itself is being kept under wraps, TV viewers got a tantalizing foretaste of it in a video about the video, which Simpson friend and co-author Lawrence Schiller sold to the ever receptive Hard Copy. In it Simpson disputes the police version of events on the night of the murders--denying, for example, that he bumped into the air-conditioning unit outside his house, as prosecutor Marcia Clark theorized. "I've lived in this house...
...Some of Simpson's statements in the interview, say sources who have seen it, are "pretty explosive.'' For one, Simpson claims that Nicole Brown Simpson's friend Faye Resnick, who was living at Nicole's house, sold drugs there--and that the murders were committed by drug dealers. "I don't enjoy being defamed in this way," Resnick told TIME; her lawyers are awaiting a copy of the tape and considering legal action...
...first feelings when I saw him, he sort of looked like a Ku Klux Klan or a skin-head with hair." Armanda Cooley, forewoman of the O.J. Simpson jury, describing how she felt upon first seeing Mark Fuhrman...